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Greasing the Wheels of International Commerce : How Services Facilitate Firms' International Sourcing
Debaere, Peter Marcel - 2010
We use unique plant-level data to study the link between the local availability of services and the decision of manufacturing firms to source materials from abroad. To guide our empirical analysis we develop a monopolistic-competition model of the materials sourcing decisions of heterogeneous...
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China's 'Great Migration' : The Impact of the Reduction in Trade Policy Uncertainty
Facchini, Giovanni - 2018
We analyze the effect of China's integration into the world economy on workers in the country and show that one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012929088
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International Trade and its Effects on Economic Growth in China
Sun, Peng - 2010
the country to target the world as its market. This research discusses the role of international trade in China's economic … growth. It starts with a review of conceptions as well as the evolution of China's international trade regime and the policy … that China has taken in favor of trade sectors. In addition, China's international trade performance is analyzed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138732
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Provincial Trade, Financial Friction and Misallocation in China
Kwon, Ohyun - 2020
We study the implications of financial-market imperfections on labor and capital misallocation in China. Financial … improving financial friction in China can lead to 3.9% welfare gain in China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838476
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Rethinking Specialisation and the Sexual Division of Labour in the 21st Century
Siminski, Peter - 2020
This paper aims to shed new light on explanations for the sexual division of labour, within a broader examination of within-household specialisation. We propose a set of indices which we believe are the first direct within-couple measures of specialisation. We use these to present a rich...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840995
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International Specialization and the Return to Capital
Batista, Catia - 2010
How does factor accumulation affect the pattern of international specialization and returns to capital? We provide a new integrated treatment to this question using a panel of 44 developing and developed countries over the period 1976-2000. We confirm the Heckscher-Ohlin prediction that, with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148352
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Product Market Integration and Labour Markets : Aggregate Gains at the Cost of More Inequality?
Andersen, Torben M.; Sorensen, Allan - 2021
Important labour market consequences of globalization may arise via product market integration which affects the room for wage negotiations and generates job creation and destruction through structural changes. We find in a Ricardian trade model that aggregate increases in wages and employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317238
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Specialization, Outsourcing and Wages
Munch, Jakob Roland; Skaksen, Jan Rose - 2021
This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages. In contrast to the standard approach in the literature, we focus on domestic outsourcing as well as foreign outsourcing. By using a simple theoretical model, we argue that, if outsourcing is associated with specialization gains...
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Trade and Migration with Renewable Natural Resources : Out-of-Steady-State Dynamics
López, Ramón - 2010
Commodity price increases associated with the entry of China, India and other countries into the world economy has led …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013143683
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Productivity, Wages and Profits : Does Firms' Position in the Value Chain Matter?
Mahy, Benoit - 2019
This paper is the first to estimate the impact of a direct measure of firm-level upstreamness on productivity, wage costs and profits (i.e. productivity-wage gaps). To do so, we merged detailed Belgian linked panel data, covering all years from 2002 to 2010, to a unique data set developed by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858492